And here they all are, decoding the sleepwalking scene from Verdi’s Macbeth. MIDGETTE: Verdi has a magnificent dramatic sensibility, and he was also a very astute portrayer of women. Shakespeare was a ...

For the eye, last week’s NBC-TV Macbeth was a triumph. The camera work was so carefully plotted that, on the screen, the play had a novel air of extreme fluidity. Oddly enough, because of the narrow ...